With over 500,000 downloads across several sites where it has been published, the pack outshined many other packs that were considered popular. What stands out about this shader pack is that it managed to get a large following in less than a year.
He has a few other projects under his belt and despite having released RedHat Shaders in early 2021, he had plenty of experience to develop it. RedHat Shaders was developed by community user mlgimposter. While it does not attempt to do anything revolutionary, RedHad Shaders manages to get plenty of things right where many shader packs fail. RedHat Shaders is one of the many packs that aim to improve lighting effects, reflections, clouds, sky textures, and more.
Fortunately, due to a dedicated community, Minecraft is the great beneficiary of many great resource packs and shader packs.
However, the visuals in vanilla have not held up well. When Minecraft was originally released, it was a revolutionary game and it still is today.